Poetry in Motion A pair of picture books pays rhyming tribute to shapes and patriotism. Readers can enjoy concrete poems organized by season in Come to My Party: And Other Shape Poems by Heidi Roemer, ...

They are written to a precise syllabic count. It begins with a line of nine syllables and then moves progressively down to the middle line of one syllable and then moves back to nine, structurally the ...

Amanda Gorman’s latest poetry collection pierces the pandemic’s silence and isolation, speaking to our collective grief in a confounding historical moment. We began to lose words As trees forget their ...

Today Múinteoir Clíona told us all about calligrams, also known as "shape poems". A calligram is a poem in which the formation of the letters or the font selected, represents an aspect of the poem's ...

“I have a pain in our teeth…” says Sister Mary Anthony in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s J’ai Mal Á Nos Dents quarter way through her Collected Poems – not just one nun’s community mindset, but also a ...

In a poem, a writer uses language, form and structure to present an idea in a new way; the words on the page become a way to communicate between the poet’s mind and the reader's. When reading poetry a ...